Gull

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Gull

2020

1h 15m

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O-bok is a 61-year-old woman and has been running a seafood store in a fish market for decades. One day, O-bok has her first meeting with her daughter In-ae’s future parents-in-law. That night, she gets raped by Gi-taek. O-bok at first pretends that nothing happened and tries to go about her life as usual. A while later, she tells In-ae about the rape. The police calls in Gi-taek to investigate, and the story of the incident begins to spread around the market.

Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

The film explores what erupts when women decide to walk away from their passive positions and speak up through more fictitious and allegorical means.

May 2, 2021

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Christopher Bourne

In Review Online

Gull may be a slight 75 minutes in length, but it packs quite a powerful punch across this brief runtime.

Sep 26, 2021

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Jaime Pena

Caimán Cuadernos de Cine

Gull unravels the moral conflict without falling into Manichaeism at any time, knowing how to end just at the moment that the most demagogic filmmakers would begin their films. [Full review in Spanish]

Aug 11, 2021

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Glenn Heath Jr.

The Film Stage

Jeong's boiling performance is never less than riveting, and a fittingly blunt response to the slippery chauvinism that continues to prop up the worst men as model citizens.

Rated: A-

May 14, 2021

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Though a little overdone in places, Gull is an important contribution to contemporary Korean cinema and makes its points well.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 13, 2020

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O-bok is a 61-year-old woman and has been running a seafood store in a fish market for decades. One day, O-bok has her first meeting with her daughter In-ae’s future parents-in-law. That night, she gets raped by Gi-taek. O-bok at first pretends that nothing happened and tries to go about her life as usual. A while later, she tells In-ae about the rape. The police calls in Gi-taek to investigate, and the story of the incident begins to spread around the market.

Director: Mi-jo Kim
Screenwriter: Mi-jo Kim
Original Language: Korean
Runtime: 1h 15m